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[[Category:New Reviews|Autobiography]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne Martin0241636604|title=Home Sweet AnywhereThe Trading Game: How We Sold Our HouseA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, Created a New card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Lifeof a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and Saw was convinced this was the Worldjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=TravelGraphic Novels|summary=Lynne We're in childhood, and Tim Martin had known each other decades ago but when we meet them they've only been married re in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for a short all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his timeaway. ThereOur narrator's just one thing though - theyfamily weren're not ready t in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to settle down, despite be the good soldier the fact that they're what might country demanded (especially as he would probably be called 'upper middle aged'. Their roots are in the US shipped off to some minor pro- both have adult children there Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the Martins have a house in California - but they want to travel father being watched and watched, and not just as touristsliked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. They want to see The mother gets the world as couple jobs with the locals see it and party to experience what it's like to live there. Lynne describes them as not being wealthyease some of the heat, but they decide to sell their homein this sultry island country, invest it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the money and become 'home-free'.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00J0CRNKE</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Roberts1035025299|title=Sad Men: A MemoirWent to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina Stibbe
|rating=4
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|summary=Before he was twenty Dave Roberts had had Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a lot of jobs - far too many to list - but he really wanted to work in advertising and specifically sabbatical after being away for Saatchi and Saatchi, whom he saw as the twenty years. She's been at Victoria'bests smallholding in Leicestershire which isn'' advertising agency and given their predominance in the early years of the eighties itt all that conducive to writing, as there's hard to argue with his judgementalways something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The only problem other side of the decision was that jobs with the agency were hard to come by and Dave eventually accepted that he would have to start rather lower down the ladder with the intention sealed when a room became available (courtesy of working his way up to the top. And that rung Deborah Moggach) at the bottom of the ladder was a job with an agency in Leedsvery reasonable rent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071301</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Woman's StoryChristopher Fowler|authortitle=Annie ErnauxWord Monkey|rating=45
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|summary=After spending two years in an old peopleIt's homethe first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, Annie Ernaux's mother finally succumbs rain arrived, and I decided not to Alzheimer's Diseasedo that either. It has been When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (a terrifyingly protracted end, ) I wanted to finish reading this book and one that has spawned feelings of absolute helplessness in her daughter(b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who watched as her mother's life crumbled before an Christopher Fowler 'imagination' that bore 'no relation to realitywas'– and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. Yet Ernaux's distress There is also fuelled something very strange about being made to laugh by the realisation a man who repeatedly reminds you that she'll 'never hear the sound of her [mother's] voice again'he is dying, and by the fact you know he actually is at that the fraying bond between the present and the past has finally been 'severed'. Impulsivelypoint, Ernaux decides to recreate that past, hoping to 'bring her [mother back] into the world' through a piece of writingbecause he does. In short, she is 'incapable of doing anything else' He did.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373440</amazonuk>0857529625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country VetKit De Waal|authortitle=Anna BirchWithout Warning and Only Sometimes|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Newly-qualified vet Anna arrives As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in the sleepy coastal village a lower class area of Ebbourne filled with dreams of following Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in the footsteps of Caribbean and her hero, James Herriot as she starts mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her new role working in family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a rural mixed practiceblack man. She will be treating farm animals, as well as smaller pets, in This intersectionality plays a friendly community large role in a stunning locationthe autobiography. However, Anna barely has time Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to settle in before being thrown headlong into the thick of things with two tricky calvings to deal with and plenty of muckher race, blood her class and goreher gender. “Oh yes MumHer parents loom large and are written with care, it’s love, and the kind of anger only a glamorous job...” she lamentschild can express to their parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753555077</amazonuk>1472284852
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Slow Getting UpBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Nate JacksonFrederick Reynolds|rating=45
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Sporting autobiographies are often written by those sports men and women who made it to the very pinnacle of their profession''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. Their stories surround past glories and how they lifted themselves up above the great It has everything to become the very bestdo with character. However, for every superstar footballer or tennis player, there needs to be a lot more average Joes and Joettes for them to shine againstPeriod. And who is to say that being an average player in a professional league is not an achievement in itself? Nate Jackson was one such ‘average’ player in the NFL – but would you call him that to his face?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IO19CYW</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John JacksonBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiencyI May Be Wrong
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|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Here at Bookbag we're great fans of John Jackson. We loved When the Dalai Lama adds his [[Tales for Great Grandchildren by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Tales for Great Grandchildren]] words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn'and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology]] so it was something t really matter how the rest of a treat the world responds to meet your book. I know, having read the author on his own groundbook in question, so to speakthat Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. Originally published as ''A Bucket of Nuts He knows (and a Herring Net: The Birth at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of a Spare-Time Farm'' the world responds to this is actually Jackson's first book and thirty-five years later we're delighted that , because it tells the truth as it's been republished is, in hardback complete with the original black-and-white illustrations by Val Biroearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909661031</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=My Life In AgonyNever Work With Animals|author=Irma KurtzGareth Steel
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I used don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to love the problem pages be appropriate. Stories of magazines as a teenager. My friends vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and I would pour over the letters which invariable ended with some form of the question Small'' but ''Am I normal?Never Work With Animals'' and mock is definitely not the invariable Agony Aunt answer of companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that 'Of course you’re normal'All Creatures', hooting instead ''Nolacked realism, you’re, really, REALLY as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not!'suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he' That response perhaps illustrates why none of us decided s written it to follow that as a career planinform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but Irma Kurtz didit doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and as agony aunt for Cosmopolitan for more than 40 years it’s safe to say she has been a fair bit more sympathetic than we ever wereeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never Mind the Bullocks: One girl's 10,000 km adventure around India in the worlds cheapest carDave Letterfly Knoderer|authortitle=Vanessa AbleSpeedy: Hurled Through Havoc
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=With How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a cute little map pithy sentence to kick off a review of India on the front cover and cartoon cars puttering over the pagehis memoir? Do you know, I thought I’d chosen an entertaining yet mind-broadening travelogue. Well I was wrong. Now I’ve read it through, really don't think I don’t even see it on the same shelf as a Lonely Planet. But that’s possibly this book’s novelty and great strengthcan. The travelogue shelf is fair groaning under weighty tomes by Europeans digging into Indian life and culture. So let me unpack the delights of this particular book for you, but don’t be misled: you aren’t going to pick up many recommendations for your own odyssey from this round-India skedaddle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886127</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008350388
|title=We Need to Talk About Money
|author=Otegha Uwagba
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oscar Goodman and George Anastasia0571365884|title=Being OscarMy Mess is a Bit of Life: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las VegasAdventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I've Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a confession to makechild. I've done something which I tell our reviewers they must never doShe would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: I took a book it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to review which I didn't expect to likeworry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. The MafiaOn a visit to a therapist, as an adult, the mob - call it when she was completely unable to speak about what you will - are not people I admire and I thought was wrong with her it would be a small step to extend was suggested that to an attorney who defended them. Las Vegas? Well, she should write itdown and 's not going to be my destination of choice. I'm not against gambling, but I struggle with the concept My Mess is a Bit of travelling to a city that revels Life: Adventures in it. Oscar Goodman says that had he been Anxiety'' is the benevolent dictator of Las Vegas rather than the mayor he would have legalised prostitution and drugsresult - or so we are given to believe. Hmm... This book was going to be one of those that I threw against the wall in disgust, wasn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HX9UEG6</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LasdunDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Give Me Everything You Have: On Being StalkedA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5
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|summary=In the autumn of 2003 James Lasdun taught Alzheimer's is a fiction workshop as part disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of the graduate writing programme at a place he calls Morgan Collegeself. On all such courses the quality of the students is very variable but one writer stood out I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as having talenthave many. He calls her NasreenYour memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. He offered help It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and above the course but Nasreen read a personal interest into this - which wasnyour dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs't in any way reciprocatedmemoir so admirable. An email correspondence which had been friendly turned nasty, Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with accusations that NasreenAlzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''s work had been stolen to sell to other writers, that he had had an affair with another student and that he had arranged for Nasreen to be raped. Anti-semitic comments were made. Obsessive love had turned to obsessive hate.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099572311</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529109116
|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.''
The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008333173|title=Glitter and GlueHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Kelly CorriganGrace Dent
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=When Kelly leaves I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the USA for a life-changing trip around judges on ''Masterchef''. You know that you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the world, time. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her goal . I've often wondered about the woman behind the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is not to end up working as a nanny in suburban Sydney. And her goal is definitely not to turn into her mother stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in the process. She doesn’t realise it at the time, but as this memoir shows, there are worse things that could happenequal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444725149</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=The Wolf of Wall StreetSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Jordan BelfortLouisa Pateman|rating=24.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=As if we didn't have enough excuses to appreciate the 'Masters of the UniverseYou can' of the financial sector. After the tax dodging, the bonus scamming, price fixing t be happy and the valiant attempt to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Streetfulfilled on your own. To be fair to Belfort, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdown. Still, heYou are not complete until you find a man''s managed to piggy back the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicaprio.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born in SiberiaSakinu Ahronglong|authortitle=Tamara Astafieva, Michael Darlow and Debbie SlaterHunter School
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I tend The flyleaf to shy away from reviewing book titles, but this time it seems appropriate – here little collection tells us that itis a work of fiction. That's a title that doesn't tell you the half of the storypossibly misleading. As much as Tamara Astafieva was born I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in Siberiathe sense that Ahronglong made it all up, and returned there several timesor whether it is as the blurb goes on to say ''recollections, for many different reasons folklore and with many very different outcomes, this is much more of a picture of autobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. It feels like the Soviet Union stories he tells about his experiences as we in Britain think of it – Moscowa child, a bit of Saint Petersburgas an adolescent, as an adult are real and little elsetrue. That's not But memory is a fault – fickle thing, and again it's not half of the story. The story maybe poetic licence has taken over here is so complex, so rich with detail and incident, there and itself came about in such an unusual way, maybe calling it fiction means that any summary of the book has its work cut out in defining its many qualitiessafer and therefore more people will read it. More people should.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373343</amazonuk>1999791282
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Katz1544641923|title=The Dog Nobody LovedAmbassadors Do It After Dinner|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=When we first meet Jon Katz heIt's not in a good place: his marriage of thirty-five years was breaking up tempting to think that the diplomatic life is privileged and he was close to a nervous breakdownluxurious. He didn't need any more problemsIt might be privileged, but family connections tell me that it is far from luxurious. He particularly Now you're not going to get many ambassadors telling you what it'didns really like (it'ts not '' need a young rescue dogdiplomatic'' to do so, a Rottweiler/Shepherd mixyou know), who'd been living wildbut the diplomatic spouse, to contend with and to upset the fragile equilibrium of the life he lived with his animals on Bedlam Farmaccompanying baggage, well, that's an entirely different matter. Frieda was near feral but devoted to her rescuer, Maria Wulf She (and it was Maria who was at the centre of this conundrum. Katz was spectacularly disconnected from the world - and Maria was the only person to whom he seemed able to talk, but to connect with Maria he had to connect with Frieda toostill usually is a 'she') can tell us exactly what goes on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091957443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Empire AntarcticaOur House is on Fire: Ice, Silence Scenes of a Family and Emperor Penguinsa Planet in Crisis|author=Gavin FrancisMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=I know two books don't make a genre, but twice in recent years I have read autobiographical travelogues of men who felt too much The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was going an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on in most of the parenting of their lives two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and their surroundings, talking and took themselves off to remoteher sister, isolatedBeata, extremely cold and inhospitable places. One went to the shores of Lake Baikal, and shared his days hunting, fishingthen nine years old, drinking and reading struggled with only a few very distant neighbourswhat was happening. Gavin Francis took himself southIn such circumstances, it's natural to the edge of the Antarctic ice, to spend seek a year as a scientific doctor. He wasn't able solution close to be completely as alone as some have been in the past – even if he hid himself away in isolation before the week-long annual changeover of staff was through. Francis ends up with a baker's dozen of companionshome, in a place where – apart from the icebut eventually, sealing things up – only two lockable doors exist. You might think this was a large group of people for someone wanting it became clear to be alone, but the very tenuous and isolated feel of the place in the huge emptiness of the landscape is the main point of this book – family that, and communing with emperor penguins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956596X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Redknapp|title=Harry: My Autobiography|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=Everybody with an interest in football knows who ''Harry'' is. The cover of his book wonthey were 't tell you who he is, but if you're not in the know it's Harry Redknapp burned- football manager and for many of us, something of out people on a national treasure. He's the manager whoburned-out planet's seen it all, having started at rock bottom - a 70s Portakabin at Oxford City - and risen to the heights of managing Tottenham Hotspur in the Premiership. At the same time he was the popular choice for the England Manager's job when Capello threw in the towel. It's fair If they were to say that Harry has lived his football life find a way to the full and anyone buying this book will get live happily again their money's worthsolution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091917875</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=191280493X|title=Love, NinaComing of Age|author=Nina StibbeDanny Ryan
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=When I began reading this book I wasn't entirely sure that I liked it. I didn't quite know how to take the Nina from the title. She's a twenty year old Nanny, employed by the editor of the London Review of Books He began writing novels and living near Regent's Park in North London. The book contains her letters to her sister, Victoria living poetry at home in Leicestershire, and tell the age of the events and happenings in her life as a Nanny and thentwelve, going on, in her life as but it was to take him a student further forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at Thames Polytechniceither. Initially it felt like she was name dropping - Alan Bennett lives over the road and drops in Consistently unpublished for dinner most days; the father all that time, he remains a shining example of Will and Sam, the two boys she is nannying, is Stephen Frears; down the road lives Claire Tomalin and her partner Michael Fraynhope over experience...and yet, given chance, you begin to see that she isn't awed by the notoriety of these people (indeed, she tells her sister that Alan Bennett was in Coronation Street!) and actually they are just the neighbours and so it is less important that Alan Bennett (AB as he's referred to in the book) comes around for dinner every night since he isn't there for fame value but rather for his own unique place in this rather crazy family life memoir!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922765</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee and Howard Webster190874572X|title=Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of SacrificeLetters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Survival and LoveSarah Death (Translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee, known in his childhood as Ah Nom, was born early in Back at the beginning of the twentieth century in the village of Dai Waan in rural China, I went on holiday to Nepal. His father died when he was young I met a wonderful Finnish woman and he lived with his grandmother, mother and 'Little Uncle', who was only a matter we became sort-of months older than Ah Nom-friends. TheyI can'd become friends as they grew older, but when his Grandfather returned after t remember if it was on that holiday or a long absence in America there as a distinct rivalry between the two. Then Grandfather revealed his reason for returning home - he intended to take the boys later one that Paula told me I really had to America to be educatedread Tove Jansson. It I do know that it was a wonderful opportunity four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and Ah Nom left that I eagerly awaited the village ''Sort Of'' translations of the rest of Jansson's work and his mother not knowing when he would see either againdevoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285736</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=My LifeSurfacing |author=David JasonKathleen Jamie|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Born in North London in February 1940 during Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didn't like the early years book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the Second World Warauthor considering ''an older, David John White once had less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a brief career as an electricianbad description of where I am. Fortunately for Add to that my love of the natural world , of those aspects of entertainment the poetic and the publiclyrical that are about style not form, he soon forsook the world of fuses and wires for that substance most of the stage and small screenall, about connection. When he joined EquityOf course, they already this book had a David White my name on their records, and after a little quick thinking on the phone, he became David Jasonit. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891407</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1906852472|title=A Piece of Danish HappinessWild Child: Growing Up a Nomad|author=Sharmi AlbrechtsenIan Mathie|rating=45
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was a true Hindu-American princessFor Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news. Obsessed Ian has come up with shoes and handbags and designer labelsthe missing link in his narrative, the story of a very unusual childhood (yes, she saw status and wealth as the only route to happinessvery years that made him the amazing man he became). But she wasnThe bad – well it't happy enoughs hardly news two years later – is that the book is published posthumously. As always, no matter how much designer gear she owned. And it wasn't until 1997, when she married her second husbands beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many of the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a Dane, and relocated to Denmark, satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that she began to wonder if it was something lacking 's now left in herself, rather than her possessions, that was at the root of her problemsdrawer is unpublishable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=The True German: The Diary of a World War II Military JudgePainting Snails|author=Werner Otto Muller-Hill and Benjamin Carter HettStephen John Hartley|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=WeIt've had diaries of teenagers, opium addicts, drug smugglerss very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and a lot morewhere for the best results. Some The answer would be something along the lines of them have been optimistic, happy things, 'try it and many notsee'. Clearly World War II was not a place for Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a terribly cheerful outlookbusker, whatever the diaristfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). However sometimes it was not the done thing I found out that there's an awful lot more to be pessimistic, for example when what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you were in the huge German military and were publicly denigrating the dreamt-of Nazi success. Such 'll ever glean from ''corrosion of moraleCasualty'' would mean you being put in front of a three-man military tribunal, and most probably sentenced for such treacherous behaviourbut that isn't really what the book's about. The startling thing There's a lot about this bookrock & roll, howeverwhich seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, is that but it contains much that would certainly didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have been deemed a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'corrosion of morale? Yep - that's the one. It', yet it was written by one of the very military judges who served on those panelss an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278544</amazonuk>
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